Winners, Losers & Tactical Positioning Amid Temporary Ceasefire Temporary ceasefire. Following a period of escalating tit-for-tat tariffs that caused significant collateral damage to both economies, the US and China have reached a 90-day truce, agreeing to temporarily suspend the bulk of tariffs on each other’s goods. Under this agreement, reciprocal tariffs will be sharply reduced with the US lowering those tariffs from 145% to 30%, while China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods will drop to 10%...
1Q25: Within House Expectation; Trudging In A Choppy Sea Pentamaster’s 1Q25 results were in line. Orderbook dwindled to RM350m as customers adopted a wait-and-see stance amid persistent global trade uncertainties. The group is actively exploring opportunities across the advancements in AI, DC, high performance computing and networking to mitigate sector-specific downturns. After a 28% rebound from its recent trough, we believe the stock now reflects a more balanced risk-reward profile. Downgrade...
GREATER CHINA Sector Automobile: Weekly: PEV sales down wow due to holiday. Maintain MARKET WEIGHT on the sector. Top BUYs: BYD, Geely and Desay SV. Internet: Expecting ample monetisation potential on promising game pipelines in 2025. Results Budweiser APAC (1876 HK/BUY/HK$8.31/Target: HK$12.00): 1Q25: EBITDA declines 11% yoy; China’s consumer confidence and on-premise channels show no significant recovery; expects sell-in to match sell-through in 2H25. Galaxy Entertainment Group (27 HK/BUY/HK$3...
Opportunities In A Ringgit Resurgence Environment The sharp ringgit appreciation driven by de-dollarisation and thus a broader reallocation of capital toward emerging market currencies support our view of a moderate upside for Malaysian equities. Key beneficiaries include importers and companies with high US dollar debt, while exporters may face margin pressure. While historical parallel suggests temporary trading opportunities, we recommend a tactical trading stance, focusing on value-driven op...
Uncovering Bright Spots Amid The Tariff-ied Pandora’s Box The sector index has tumbled 32% ytd, with valuations now trading below -1SD to the seven-year forward PE mean. The key debate remains whether the sector has factored in imminent downside earnings risks, and fallen enough to justify bottom-fishing. To stress-test this, we model a double-burned down case − axeing earnings and applying a -0.5SD/-1SD valuation multiple. While the stress test highlight pockets of vulnerability, selective brig...
GREATER CHINA Initiate Coverage Tencent Music Entertainment Group (1698 HK/BUY/HK$47.80/Target: HK$60.00) World’s largest music platform with evolving social ecosystem. Results Dian Diagnostics (300244 CH/HOLD/Rmb13.99/Target: Rmb15.00) 2024: Results in line; maintain 2025 revenue growth estimate of 8.8% yoy. iFlytek (002230 CH/SELL/Rmb45.18/Target: Rmb35.00) 2024 and 1Q25: Earnings miss on heightened R&D spending; solid top-line growth. Update Sunn...
A director at Pentamaster Corporation Berhad bought 60,000 shares at 1.935MYR and the significance rating of the trade was 68/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last t...
Silicon Vision: Spearheading Malaysia’s AI Leadership Through IP Innovation “Silicon Vision”, the first-ever country-level partnership with Arm Holdings, marks a transformative milestone in spearheading the frontier semiconductor evolution. While this multifaceted transformation is undeniably a complex endeavour, we are positive as this game-changing evolution could eventually drive a transformative waterfall effect across the entire semiconductor value chain, spanning across IC designer to equi...
2024: Within Expectations; Trudging Along A Choppy Sea Within expectations. Pentamaster Corporation (Pentamaster) reported a weaker 4Q24 core net profit of RM15.1m (-38% qoq, -35% yoy), bringing 2024 core net profit to RM79.5m (-10%) which accounts for 96% of our/consensus full-year estimates respectively. Note that 2024 core earnings have been adjusted for the unrealised forex losses (RM14.6m) and other one-off impairment related to inventory and expected credit loss allowance on receivables.
Unlocking Strategic Synergies And Valuation Benefits Through The Privatisation Of Its Hong Kong Unit Pentamaster Corporation (PCB), together with Puga Holdings (Puga) as joint offerors, has proposed the privatisation of its 63.90%-owned subsidiary, Pentamaster International (PIL) which is currently listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE). Under the joint offerors agreement, PCB will increase its stake in PIL from 63.90% to 71.00% through the acquisition of an additional 170.4m shares (or ...
3Q24: Below Expectations; Awaiting An Inflection Point Pentamaster’s results came in below expectations. While orderbook improved slightly to RM420m, any substantial improvement could be seen only in 2H25 on the absence of strong visibility in the automobile segment. The group is scouting for opportunities across advancements in AI, DC, high performance computing and networking to mitigate sector-specific downturns. We cut our 2024/25 earnings forecasts by 8%/9% respectively. Maintain HOLD. Targ...
GREATER CHINA Economics Trade Surprising beat on exports. Sector Automobile Weekly: Trump’s tariff to reshape China automobile supply chain. Maintain MARKET WEIGHT. Top BUYs: Geely, CATL, Fuyao Glass and Desay SV. Results Galaxy Entertainment Group (27 HK/BUY/HK$36.35/Target: HK$46.00) 3Q24: EBITDA decline due to higher reinvestmen...
GREATER CHINA Economics Inflation: Headline inflation lower; core holds steady. Money Supply: Liquidity remains ample, but households delevered. Sector Automobile: Weekly: April car sales beat; further recovery in the first week of May. Maintain UNDERWEIGHT. Top BUYs: BYD, Li Auto and CATL. Internet: Cloud industry development facilitated by recent AIGC breakthrough. Results JD.com (9618 HK/BUY/HK$135.00/Target: HK$216.00): 1Q23: Earnings beat; soft 2Q23 top-line growth. INDONESIA Sector Proper...
GREATER CHINA Sector Automobile: Weekly: China October EV sales disrupted by COVID-19 lockdowns. Maintain OVERWEIGHT. Top picks: CATL, Fuyao Glass and Xusheng. Update Sino Biopharmaceutical (1177 HK/HOLD/HK$4.05/Target: HK$4.00): 9M22 revenue growth in line; guiding for double-digit revenue and earnings growth in 2022. INDONESIA Results Bukalapak.com (BUKA IJ/BUY/Rp280/Target: Rp480); 3Q22: Records positive margin contribution for the first time. Champ Resto Indonesia (ENAK IJ/HOLD/Rp1,990/Targ...
PENTAMASTER CORP (MY), a company active in the Industrial Machinery industry, now shows a lower overall rating. The independent financial analyst theScreener confirms the fundamental rating of 2 out of 4 stars. However, the market behaviour deterioration triggered a risk requalification, which can be thus described as moderately risky. theScreener believes that increased risk justifies the general evaluation downgrade to Neutral. As of the analysis date January 14, 2022, the closing price was MY...
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